Push-bar for trolley-cars



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W H THOMAS PUSH BAR FOR TRQLLEY CARS.

Patented Nov. 9,1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. THOMAS, OF LAHASKA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PUSH-BAR FOR TROLL EY-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 593,340, dated November 9, 189 7.

Application filed June 24, 1897.

T0 00% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. THOMAS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lahaska, in the county of Bucks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Push-Bars for Trolley-Cars and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improved pushbar for trolley-cars; and the object is to provide a device of this character to be attached to the front platform of a motor-car so as to engage the rear axle when on the point of advancing toward a vehicle stranded on the track and assist it out of the path of the car.

To this end the invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the several parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference-characters indicate the same parts of the invention.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of an ordinary moto r-car, showing my improved push-bar in its housed position. Fig. 2 shows the manner of using the push-bar. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the push-bar detached.

1 1 represent brackets fixed to the side of the car, and 2 2 represent hinged pawls which are pivoted above said brackets, and the horizontal arms 3 extend across and close the opening formed in the upper ends of said brackets.

at represents the push-bar,which is provided with the forked ears 5 5 at one end and at its opposite end with rectangular parallel ears 6 and 7, the ear 6 being somewhat longer than the ear 7, so as to rest on the platform of the car, while the ear 7 extends underneath the platform.

8 represents an orifice in the ear 6 to receive Serial No. 642,181. (No model.)

orifice 8, and an alined orifice in the car-platform to hold the push-bar from slipping when in use.

10 10 represent elastic sleeves, preferably short sections of rubber-pipe tubing, which encompasses a shank of the push-bar at the points where it is secured in the brackets on the car, so as to prevent unnecessary rattling or noise while the push-bar is being carried by the car.

The manner of using the device is fully explained in Fig. 2, and needs no further description.

Although I have specifically described the construction and relative arrangement of the several elements of my invention, I do not desire to be confined .to the same, as such changes or modifications may be made as will clearly fall within the scope of my invention without departing from the spirit thereof.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States,

1s 1. A car provided with the fixed brackets 1 1, provided with the pivoted pawls 2 2, in combination with the push-bar 4, provided with the elastic sleeves 10 10, substantially as shown and described.

tachment for trolley-cars comprising a pushbar 4, provided with the forked ears 5 and 5, and the rectangular parallel ears 6 and 7 provided with the orifice 8, and the removable coupling-pin 9, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. THOMAS.-

Witnesses FRANZ HEGER,

C. MATHER.

2. As a new article of manufacture, an at a coupling-pin 9, which extends through the 

